And Another Thing… And Another Thing…
Perhaps there's a limit to female masochism after all. To the great astonishment of the New York Times, which put the story on page one, Creating a Life, Sylvia Ann Hewlett's b...
May 23, 2002 / Column / Katha Pollitt
As the Press Turns As the Press Turns
Quick, pinch me--am I still living in the same country? Reading and watching the same media? This "Bob Woodward" fellow who co-wrote a tough piece in the May 18 Washington Post...
May 23, 2002 / Editorial / Michael Tomasky
In Cold Type In Cold Type
haven't done much mental spring cleaning because so much of the last month has been taken up with brooding and spewing about the crisis in the Middle East; no doubt the coming mon...
May 23, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
Journeys With Fecklessness Journeys With Fecklessness
The essential mystery of the 2000 election has always been this: How in the world did George W. Bush ever get close enough to invite the Republican-appointed majority on the Su...
May 16, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman
When Is a Coup a Coup? When Is a Coup a Coup?
On April 11, 2002, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez was ousted in an ill-fated coup attempt. On April 14 he returned in triumph to the presidential palace. What to call the ...
May 9, 2002 / Editorial / Scott Sherman
Bad Work Bad Work
Howard Gardner, the noted education/cognition specialist, recently undertook, with two colleagues, an in-depth study of the work-related happiness of two groups of people, gene...
May 2, 2002 / Column / Eric Alterman
In Cold Type In Cold Type
When I was a teenager on my first trip to Paris, I remember looking out at the Parisians from the window of a taxi as we proceeded along some splendid boulevard and thinking, B...
Apr 25, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Amy Wilentz
The Pull of ‘New Gravity’ The Pull of ‘New Gravity’
In an end-of-the-year column devoted to "Politics and Prose," Peter Beinart, editor of The New Republic, asserted that there had been a "new gravity" and "sobriety" to American jo...
Apr 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Mark Mordue
Sensation Sensation
A friend and I were sitting around commiserating about the things that get to us: unloading small indignities, comparing thorns. "So there I was," she said, "sitting on the bus a...
Apr 18, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Patricia J. Williams
Twenty Years On Twenty Years On
Here we are, twenty years on, and the reports of the Israeli army smashing its way through Palestinian towns remind me of what came out of Lebanon as Sharon and his invading army...
Apr 4, 2002 / Beat the Devil / Alexander Cockburn